Red Mountain® Ice Plant

Red Mountain® Ice Plant

Red Mountain® Ice Plant

Plant Select® 2007. Blazing scarlet flowers form a red carpet atop this 2-inch tall succulent throughout the growing season. Individual plants will become 15-20 inches wide making a striking, fire-resistant ground cover for drought tolerant xeric plantings in sand, loam or clay. For best bloom plant in full sun but partial shade is also tolerated.

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Dryland ground covers, rock garden accents, xeric garden edgings, trough plantings—all are good uses for ice plants. They thrive in low water settings in clay and tolerate more moisture in sharp draining soils. Unlike sedum, they are not a deer or rabbit magnet and can be used on sloping sand for erosion control and around structures as part of a fire resistant
landscape. Consider planting these between stepping stones in spots that seem too hot and dry for thymes.

Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:

These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these.

These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care.

These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death.